Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update.
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Thx!!
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@atlemo Hm, it's readable if a little small for me. But I think you get the idea, one big list on the left, and basically nothing on the right.
Thank your for clarifying about the frequency algorithm, but here's the thing: I use this thing for work, every day, so I literally don't have time to give. The search suggestions don't bother me, but need bookmarks and history, and it's a real downgrade for me to have to go to bookmarks and history in separate tabs and then search them.
It certainly is faster now, but fast at the price of functionality isn't a good trade-off for me. Anyway, thank your for replying, it's good to know that at least you're [the Vivaldi devs] willing to talk about it.
However, like I mentioned, this is unfeasible for me, so I need to go download a downgrade. I'll keep an eye on any developments.
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@jorpheus
Please don't downgrade Vivaldi, it break your user profile.
I use quick commands (F2) for searching bookmarks, they bother me in the address bar.
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Unwanted address bar change. People do not like it. Calling it "In true Vivaldi fashion, you are in charge" when downgrading the feature, actually taking AWAY the ability to customize it, is quite funny.
It's also buggy. It's pulling typed history as "search" (items?) in some situations even if history (and typed history) is disabled, instead of showing search suggestions like it should.
E.g. when typing some character, " g ", then using backspace to erase it and immediately entering " e " char, the address bar shows 2 "search" items from my typed history, although it should show "ebay", "espn", "etsy" as search suggestions. Sometimes this happens even when opening a new tab and quickly entering the " e " char to the address bar. It's a mess.
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@WerewolfAX said in Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update.:
But can somebody explain, what "Direct Match" does in the address bar settings? Seems to be different from using the search engines defined, but I don't fully understand what it does.
This is another misstep, the previous search options page had a
?which gave a little description as to what each search did. Pulling from that it saysShortcut to known brand websites(this will also be affiliate sites) -
@auxce said:
Thank you very much for this update
Unfortunately, with the new version I have some issues which are a little bit annoying.
One thing is the panel, which is always opened when I start Vivaldi, despite I'm closing Vivaldi with the panel closed.
Same here!
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+1 Definitely speed up.
-1 Still I can' t close speed dial quick settings panel click anywhere. Must click X.
-1 Where is my old ADD Speed Dial button.
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@sjudenim said in Vivaldi 7.2: Speedy and smart, a serious update.:
Pulling from that it says Shortcut to known brand websites (this will also be affiliate sites)
Ah, got it! Thank you very much for clarifying.
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[Menus] Add “Share Vivaldi” to Help menu (VB-114495)
Can't find such item in my Help menu.
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@jorpheus: Even if you enable "Prioritize Bookmarks", you don't get a hit?
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"We made pages load faster. For some of you it will be more than twice as fast."
Which one in the changelog does that correspond to? The only one I can imagine it being is this:
[New][Performance] Reduce latency on domain lookup (VB-114417)
But twice as fast? Doubtful. And it would only apply to sites that you'd never visited before, because otherwise it would be in the DNS cache. Either way we should only be talking fractions of a second.
Maybe it was just omitted from the list.
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This update made a few things I got used to over years dissapear:
- When typing into address bar you could select an element and its address (not title) would appear in the field available for CTRL+C. Now it doesn't until you "Enter".
- It was possible to have side panel open only for a specific pinned tab (RSS Feeds), so it would dissapear when switching to another tab. The side panel stays for every tab now. Why do you even need a side panel for Feeds? Haven't you seen how Opera did it in the past?
- It looks like some bugs were introduced too. I only have feeds enabled, and for some reason, when changing windows (have one open for each of two desktops), they stop working. The Feeds icon disappears from the side panel and I have to add it back manually, which doesn't work most of the time, while the pinned Feeds window shows "Mail is in another window" message.
Wish you'd leave alone the old stuff that works and introduce new stuff only after it's been properly tested. Would also appreciate an option to keep the old behavior, since not many people would prefer to change their browsing habits every update.
There also seem to be some "speed" issues, as sometimes you could end up with an empty page (the mouse pointer still reacts to the invisible objects), which resets when you minimize and maximize the window.
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Hi, Vivaldi Devs! Thanks for the great work! I love this browser.
But i think this last update broke something.
Try this:
Got to Settings -> Privacy & Security -> WEBSITE PERMISSIONS
In Global Permissions, I have cookies / session only.
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Great update guys, the shortcut override was a feature that was needed, and thanks for reverting the ctrl-f functionality. Also decoupling feeds from mail was the right move and I think you may have fixed an annoying extension crash I had so overall a lot of things have been improved.
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After the update, all my workspaces were empty.
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Bug:
Even if "Search in Address Field" is disabled, if you type a search nickname, then space, then something (anything) it triggers search.
I feel like this version should had had several more snapshot iterations before going stable.
"Humans are monsters constructed of lies and falsehood."
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@mib2berlin Regarding the panel issue: Removing "Vivaldi Social" and/or "Vivaldi Mail" from panel seems to fix it.
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@debunix Removing "Vivaldi Social" and/or "Vivaldi Mail" from panel seems to fix it.
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@JyuSensei
Hi, I checked this in Vivaldi 7.1, it does the same so no bug.
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I don't use search nickname in the address bar. I don't use search in the address bar.
I have disabled that setting.I would had assume that disabling "Search in Address field" would... disable search in address field. I would had assume that "Search nicknames" fall under the search umbrella. And I would had assume that if I wanted to write "g lorem ipsum spicy tacos" in the address bar I would get an error page and not a google search for lorem ipsum spicy tacos.
Now, why would I want to type "g lorem ipsum spicy tacos" in the address bar not expecting to search is very well irrelevant.
